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Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
102•yi_wang•3h ago•29 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
15•rolph•1h ago•5 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
244•valyala•11h ago•46 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
46•RebelPotato•3h ago•9 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
159•surprisetalk•11h ago•150 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
190•mellosouls•14h ago•335 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
34•duxup•1h ago•6 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
68•gnufx•10h ago•56 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
58•swah•4d ago•105 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
178•AlexeyBrin•16h ago•33 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
168•vinhnx•14h ago•17 comments

Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
8•witnessme•35m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
130•samasblack•13h ago•76 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
307•jesperordrup•21h ago•96 comments

Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World with Solar (2009)

https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
11•robtherobber•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
75•momciloo•11h ago•16 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
49•chwtutha•2h ago•8 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
111•randycupertino•6h ago•229 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
100•thelok•13h ago•22 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
573•theblazehen•3d ago•207 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
37•mbitsnbites•3d ago•4 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
299•1vuio0pswjnm7•17h ago•475 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
139•josephcsible•9h ago•166 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
31•languid-photic•4d ago•12 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
185•valyala•11h ago•168 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
231•limoce•4d ago•125 comments

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
89•amitprasad•5h ago•81 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
900•klaussilveira•1d ago•276 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
147•speckx•4d ago•229 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
145•videotopia•4d ago•48 comments
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Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers

https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2025/05/leverage-and-sanction-between-coworkers.html
88•physicsgraph•8mo ago

Comments

sdwr•8mo ago
Beautiful! People's zero points can be at very different places on these scales, and it takes a lot of effort to shift them.
lurk2•8mo ago
> This post features contributions from a coworker. Also with contributions from Gemini 2.5

Smelled it from “What's one positive action you can commit to this week?”

tkgally•8mo ago
And from the bullet points and the lack of a personal perspective.

I'm glad the poster at least admitted the AI contribution, though.

I use AI a lot myself for brainstorming and perspective and even advice. But I include in my prompt details about my particular situation and needs. The responses are worth much more to me than generic listicle slop.

kappuchino•8mo ago
Well, he commented on his post the prompts: Two LLM prompts to Gemini 2.5 were used to help with the content.

> The following is a blog post. Please identify additional points of leverage and sanction in each context mentioned in the blog post.

and

> The following is a blog post. I want to make the content more engaging. I am reluctant to illustrate the points with stories, so I'm looking for other ways to make the content accessible and engaging.

Since it's mostly a list of lists and a starter text (for engagement) ... well played.

crtified•8mo ago
Thinking back to a failed role, many years ago - the articles first 'sanctions' list reads like a checklist of achievements for the situation that I blindly dug myself into while under the high stress of the time.

It took until quite a few years later to have a clearer perspective on it. Accordingly, with hindsight I wish I'd had the articles wisdom a couple of decades ago, as a preventative - though I partly wonder if I'd have had the brain structure to really take it in, back then.

droopyEyelids•8mo ago
Wisdom sounds like nonsense till we have the experience to digest it
foobarbecue•8mo ago
I avoid the word "sanction" whenever I can because it's an auto-antonym and just too confusing.
chrisweekly•8mo ago
good idea
lotsofpulp•8mo ago
I see “literally” in the same light.
gosub100•8mo ago
99% of cases it could be removed without affecting the meaning. Wish browsers could block it. Years back there was the cloud to butt add-on that replaced the word cloud or removed it. I'm just to lazy to look into it for "literally".
zeckalpha•8mo ago
Surely, this was an oversight without oversight.
notarobot123•8mo ago
Even so, we ought to cleave to simplicity otherwise the confusion may cleaves us apart.
jxjnskkzxxhx•8mo ago
Im skeptical that positive interaction between teams can exist, other than as positive interaction between their leads. It seems to me that risk/reward for an individual to blame things on a different team it too appealing to pass on.

Or maybe this is how my company has trained me to think. Everything always seems to be a different team's fault

jemmyw•8mo ago
Clear responsibilities between the teams can help. Then you don't need to blame, the blame is in the process. "I'll be blocked on X until Y is implemented, but I can work on Z" rather than "They didn't implement Y so I can't work on X" it's pretty subtle but that's people for you. Wording (a) feels more condusive to the follow up of "or I can help with Y"
Spooky23•8mo ago
Yes, this a million times. When things get hard, shared responsibility is your responsibility.
dasil003•8mo ago
This is why blameless postmortem culture is so critical, because in any large organization there will be blind spots due the challenges of coordinating hundreds or thousands of individuals, so if you want to even have a chance of making things better, you need to be able to talk concretely about what went wrong without getting personal. Eventually accountability does need to happen, but it needs to be grounded in technical reality and enforced by people who know what they're doing. Many organizations don't have such people (or don't have them anymore), which leads to all kinds of distortions and prioritizing covering your ass instead of making good big-picture decisions.